Sibling Interaction Across Cultures

Sibling Interaction Across Cultures is a collection of studies focusing on the role siblings play in the social, emotional, and cognitive development of their younger siblings. Unlike much previous research on sibling relationships, these studies share the underlying assumption that social interaction plays a significant role in the acquisition and transmission of cultural knowledge and social understanding. The contributors evaluate the advantages as well as limitations of current methodological issues directly affecting sibling research and assess the various theoretical perspectives underpinning these methodologies. Drawing from empirical, cross- and infra-cultural research, this volume lays new groundwork for identifying universal, environmental, and culture-specific aspects of the role of siblings in child development.

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Sibling Interaction Across Cultures is a collection of studies focusing on the role siblings play in the social, emotional, and cognitive development of their younger siblings. Unlike much previous research on sibling relationships, these studies share the underlying assumption that social interaction plays a significant role in the acquisition and transmission of cultural knowledge and social understanding. The contributors evaluate the advantages as well as limitations of current methodological issues directly affecting sibling research and assess the various theoretical perspectives underpinning these methodologies. Drawing from empirical, cross- and infra-cultural research, this volume lays new groundwork for identifying universal, environmental, and culture-specific aspects of the role of siblings in child development.

Inhalt
1 Communicating Across Disciplines: On Integrating Psychological and Ethnographic Approaches to Sibling Research.- History of This Collection.- Epilogue.- I The Relation Between Larger Cultural Goals and Socialization.- 2 Comparing Sibling Relationships Across Cultures.- 3 Trust in the Mandinka Way: The Cultural Context of Sibling Care.- 4 The Role of Sibling Interaction in Child Socialization.- II The Emergence of Cultural Knowledge: Social, Emotional, and Cognitive.- 5 Siblings as Effective Socializing Agents: Evidence from Central Mexico.- 6 Siblings and the Development of Social Understanding in Early Childhood.- 7 Sibling Interaction, Birth Spacing, and Intellectual/Linguistic Development.- III Perceptions of the Sibling Role.- 8 The Child's Perspective of Sibling Caretaking and Its Relevance to Understanding SocialEmotional Functioning and Development.- 9 Children's, Parents', and Observers' Perspectives on Sibling Relationships.- 10 Sisters and Brothers.- Author Index.